Obama has mismanaged economy, government

It is amazing to read in David Ignatius' June 25 column about all the harm the sequester is supposed to be causing. Explain to me how a 10 percent cut, not in the entire budget, but just in the proposed increase of spending from last year, can have such catastrophic results? Yes, it is ham-fisted, but it is what we should expect from an administration that has demonstrated its inability to govern except by ideology.

The American dream has always been, that anyone who is willing to work hard and take a few risks, can end up with success. This administration, led by a person who had no previous experience in the executive branch, does not lend itself to efficiency. Consider what the last 4 ½ years have yielded. The trillion-dollar "rescue" of an economy devastated by Democratic policies. Please remember that when President Obama blames George W. Bush, he is hiding the fact that the last two years of the Bush presidency, he had a totally Democratic Congress, and that most of the policies causing the meltdown were put in place by Democratic policies, aided and abetted by Republicans who recognized that the press would not support them otherwise.

Then there were months spent on the Affordable Care Act, while other important business was neglected. The president appointed more "czars" than ever before to enable the executive branch to issue regulation after regulation, effectively stifling free enterprise.

The free enterprise system has over the past 200 years resulted in more prosperity than the world has ever known. The economic engine that is the United States has almost single-handedly pulled large numbers of people out of poverty, not only in the U.S. but in Europe also. But this is being systematically destroyed by ideologues, touting "fairness." The world is not fair, and any attempt to make it so, only results in more "unfairness," witness the fact that more children are in poverty now than were at the start of Obama presidency.

I have always been an optimist, believing in the promise of American enterprise, but that is certainly dimmed by current policies. We can only hope that the innate goodness and sense of the American people will turn us back to what may be imperfect, but is far better than the soft socialism we are headed for now.

Barbara Witt

Indianapolis

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Obama has mismanaged economy, government

It is amazing to read in David Ignatius' June 25 column about all the harm the sequester is supposed to be causing.